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Thursday, August 31, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Hezbollah chief says he met Assad in Damascus
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe head of Lebanese Shiite terror movement Hezbollah, who has lived in hiding for a decade, said Thursday he had traveled to Damascus to seek the Syrian president’s approval for a jihadist evacuation deal.
“I personally went to Damascus” to see President Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah told thousands of his supporters in a televised speech.
Hundreds of Islamic State group fighters and civilians were evacuated Monday from the border region between Lebanon and Syria under a ceasefire deal and headed toward eastern Syria.
— With AFP
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